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Has anyone done that? I was seriously considering trying it out recently, just to see what happened when it went through the security scanner. I would expect questions to be asked since it is strange cabin baggage unless you intend to make an exit mid flight. I was forbidden to try it by my wife...

Always good to have binos but it's always a trade-off against their weight. I would love to have a Zeiss 15x56 with me all the time but at over a grand a pair it would be madness. In any case I don't need that sort of quality on a regular basis. So I go to the other end of the scale and always...

Um. My point exactly. Bushcrafters don't think like military etc. This is a bushcraft forum not a military one and while there may be a few wannabes the majority do not spend their daily lives running around wearing webbing. A survival tin should be on your person at all times not just when...

You'll not have it on you when you need it then. More of a man tin than a survival kit.

If only somebody cared about me!!

The show was great, the camping not so great due to a total lack of foresight and planning. In the final hours more and more people were crammed into already overfull locations, the end result being that we were camping in a car park. Presumably the ones selling the camping tickets did not talk...

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The cure is patience, the prevention bucketloads of deet.

Leave the red squirrels alone though. They taste ok, but they're more vulnerable in most areas.

There's a lot of nonsense talked about contaminants, particularly on environmental degree courses. Most of London's tap water was supplied in lead pipes 50 years ago and schoolchildren were allowed to play around with serious quantities of mercury and they're not all dead yet. I suppose if you...

Nicely put. I'd have issues contacting my mum though unless there is a course on mediumship. I'd replace that one with 'If you're not enjoying it you're doing it wrong'.

There is something of a mystique built up over the issue of a survival tin. My view is that a survival tin is just a tin to contain my critical survival kit, it is not in itself important. There are two crucial requirements of such a tin. Firstly it should be small and light enough to fit in the...

Thanks for that, I tried to reply but got The following errors occurred with your submission Tony has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space. Anyway my PM contained nothing secret, just said that I would prefer a...

Of course there's no need for camo gear unless you are stalking hapless wildlife. But nor is there any real need not to. There are far more intimidating sights in the country. If you are of a nervous disposition you should follow nature and just move around in large, colourful, often noisy...

I thought it might be helpful to become a fully paid up member but have fallen at the first hurdle. When I tried to apply I was directed to use that anathema to a simple soul, that tool of the devil, Paypal. Now, I realise that the majority of the great unwashed use Paypal, and have used it for...

Alaska. Assuming the bushcraft mores are adhered to you can do what you like there, including dying miles from help. I really don't understand the 'don't touch a living tree' brigade. I spent many happy years managing woodland and coppicing (et al) really only works on live trees - you can of...

Always a difficult subject as some people are more sensitive than others to contaminants. I prefer the simple milbank and boil approach and have often just drunk the water from rivers untreated. Cryptospyridium and other cysts normally only give yu a 24 hour bout of 'spanish tummy' and then...

Only thing I can add to this is that I once cut the fleshy part of my arm very deep and clean. I put three stitches in it using a normal sewing needle and thread. No big deal and it healed fine. Two biggest problems were pushing the needle through and tying the knots. I used a matchbox to help...

I've never been bothered by mosquitoes, it's the horse flies that seem to find me attractive and I've not found anything that will keep them away. So I just itch.

I believe there is a lot of misguided concern about water. My belief is that there are far worse chemicals in the food chain than you find in most rivers, and chemicals are all that really bother me too much. I have swum in many rivers and swallowed my fair share of them, and I've drunk a...